skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To what extent does something like the JRE JIT code know about processor specific details?

I honestly don't know. The most obvious thing I can think of is that it might check the L1 cache size, which I believe can be discovered even if the processor family is a new one that the JRE doesn't recognize.
I'm in Romania too.
The original blogpost criticizing their product is third in Google search results when looking for "colon help" (at least if you are in RO)

Anyway, no big deal yet as I'm remaining anonymous and I'm sure Automatic Inc will be fine, however the principle of the thing is bothering me.
They already stoped proper criticism because the person had a domain and a whois search gave his name and address away.

I don't plan on stopping and will continue to critique products which are bulshit naming them on purpose.

I already did this with Power Balance (5-th in results) and they did not sue or react much.

This is a big company though, they sold over 200.000 products at 35$ a piece (this is a lot in Romania)
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Could you define "practical OS"?

What specifically do you want this OS to be able to do? (Note that we've reached a point where no user necesarily needs to restrict themselves to a single OS. They could use different OS's on the same computer for different purposes. This was not always so easy to do. It will continue to get easier.)
Here's JSC JIT http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/JavaScriptCore/j...
Good catch, fixing that now
I need this as a screensaver, asap!
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I used soundex and metaphone to correct spelling mistakes for a project. My assumption: that most spelling mistakes are people trying to sound out the spelling and not simple typos. For the limited case I was solving (mostly Biblical names) it worked quite well.
Stripe is developing a lot faster than I ever expected. I was really happy with the initial product when it became available. Easy payment integration for developers was a [INSERT EXPLETIVE] dream. Their latest features have been terrific and add extra benefit. To see them partnering with Wufoo to help other developers is great.

Whoever put together Stripe's roadmap should get a beer or at least a high five.

Consider me a fanboy (and smarter at security thanks to them).
Only offer sign-in in the app (with no option to purchase / become a paying member). Netflix, Dropbox, Spotify, etc all do this, it's basically industry standard. Boom, done.

I would have expected this blog post 2 years ago; the fact that you were blindsided by this really doesn't give me a lot of confidence in your company. Anyone who's developed for iOS would have been able to tell you on day one that you're in serious gray-bordering-on-black territory with regards to IAP policy. Yeah, it sucks, and you can't really do anything about it. So suck it up and go with what everyone else is doing. Because so far, you've definitely lost me as a customer.

I'm an iPhone owner and I know that 1)you have no qualm about charging me more for the same service (apple's 30% notwithstanding) 2)you don't know much about iOS development and 3)your dissatisfaction with the platform makes me doubt your commitment to it in the future, and with data backup, I NEED to be confident in my service's future as well as its support of my device.
I think the exclusivity factor to iOS might be part of the marketing angle.

"Did you read that latest article in The Magazine? Oh, I forgot you had an Android phone. Well then..... so I hear Angry Birds has a new game out."
If there are other tips that we should add to the list, let us know and we will update the post suitably.
Ask HN: Cheddar iOS app analogue for Rails?
Cheddar(https://github.com/nothingmagical/cheddar-ios) is a great way to see some professional level Obj-C/iOS code in the wild. Is there an equivalent for Rails? Hartl's app is too elementary, though Diaspora(https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) seems promising?
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Secretly, yes. :)
I give him props for ordering the review, saying something might be fishy and then the eventual apology so quickly though.
Scheme guarantees it; CL only provides it as an option.
Can you elaborate on your "100% safe and secure" claim? You appear to have a "reset your password" link, which is a big red flag that indicates to me that any data I store on your service is not private. To me "100% safe and secure" means that if you lose your password you lose your data, because it has been encrypted with the lost password.
"2)you don't know much about iOS development" is a bit harsh - let me rephrase that with "2) you are unfamiliar with the iOS platform"
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This looks really awesome. I'm quite excited about this! I'm very interested in betting and this looks like I could have a lot of fun!

Shame I'll never use it, because I don't have Facebook.
hope they zeroed out those amazon keys:

https://github.com/clutchio/clutch/blob/master/clutch/settin...
Having ordered about $30,000 worth of goods from ali baba this year, my experience has been an interesting one.

First off, I started selling electronic cigarettes with custom cartridges. When I found a demand I went to ali baba to get the e-cig kits for cheap. It was easy to find a supplier, but for sure the lady I am dealing with isn't the factory, but she has been good. Few qualms though.

For one, she didn't want to use the ali baba payment setup. So the first payment was a leap of faith. On my second order (for about the same amount of $) she sent me different kits than the first time because one e-cig was longer than the other. I didnt know I was getting a modified kit until I received about 500 of them.

My overall experience with this random company I met through ali baba has been a good one. Each time they have lowered my price and even dealt with the dead units I receive (Over 100 dead chargers thus far... I have been taking them apart and resoldering them myself, but they replace each one). Would be nice to talk to the factory directly, but the people on ali baba really helped me launch a company through an IM window.
It just depends on what you are prototyping. Some things will run no problem on a breadboard, some will give you no end of misery.

Complicated circuits, circuits with components only available in SMT packages, high-speed circuits, circuits sensitive to noise (sensors)- these are a few examples of devices you may wish to prototype on something other than breadboard.
Am I completely crazy or is there no way to cancel a subscription? I subscribed, but only to give it a shot during the 7 day trial. Currently it is set to auto-renew and charge me $1.99 after 7 days.

edit: Found out how to do it http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4098

What a RIDICULOUS process. I shouldn't have to google to find out how to do it in the first place.
Lifelike might be the term you're looking for... :)
"There was the founder of Kwelia.com, which makes software that helps landlords mint more money from their properties"

Is that really the economist I'm reading? If even they're getting sick of the rentier class the revolution can't be far behind!
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Users love simple and familiar designs
Serious question: Let's say for a moment that this is akin to defamation. Why would it be Wordpress' legal responsibility to take down the posts or the blog and not the person who posted them? It seems that holding Wordpress responsible for what their users say is a burdensome and dangerous notion.
If FF16 was pulled, why did it _just_ (Thu, Oct 11, 12:05pm PST) download and try to update my 15.0.1? (WinXP) That made me . . . uncomfortable.
I'm wondering if you have the capacity, and imagination, to articulate what a nation solely composed of individuals such as yourself would be like.

Your reaction all-to-much reminds me of the negativity that HN leveled against cperciva's "exam": brash opinions, with little reflection.

I don't really respond much on HN, it'd be too tedious, but for a moment consider your comment. It is filled with an inordinate number of assumptions. Assumptions such as the meaning of "success", wealth creation, and implicitly, and glaringly, the admission that to "change what you don't like" you ought to "go be successful yourself".

You are too shallow to see that much of your comfortable world-view is a gift of American society, which was too hard fought for you to simply throw away on ideological whims.
I second AP Circuits. I've been using them for prototypes for about 5 years now and am very happy with their work.
Talk is cheap: Six billion people worldwide have cell phones
It does. Still I think the point of game of life is not to look organic but to make complex thing from very simple rules. Like supposedly the universe we live in. Conway's game of life would look organic if you zoomed out enough, no computer can do that of course.
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That sounds strange. They keys on most Thinkpads can't depress far enough that you'd catch the edge of the key in the upper neighboring row. I just tried, and I can catch the edge of the key in the next row below, although I'd have to have my fingers pulling down on the keys to do that. That's part of what the key shape does - it's supposed to guide your finger to the center of the key and keep it from sliding off.

As far as the actual mechanism of the keyboards, almost all laptops (including Macbooks and Thinkpads) have used the same scissor-switch mechanisms for about the last decade.
PlaySpan (VISA-owned digital goods seller) hacked; millions of id/pwds leaked
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Half a gig per issue is exactly why I consider them subpar.
We provide native UI components and Facebook SDK integration out of the box.

Our customers tell us they value our super fast and simple build / test cycle and Reload feature:
https://trigger.io/reload

You can develop for free.

When you want to package for launch or build with a premium modules, you need to pay at least for that month. You can downgrade at any time.
Anyone want to post a screenshot for us mobile readers?
$20/year for 100GB? Victim or not that is pretty amazing value.
HTML5 implementation in 3, 2...
Csr.io - a better certificate signing request generator
"oh man I am so blocked up. I'm calling Colon Rooter."
Does this seem accurate? How to build an iPhone app
The site is down "for maintenance" since the hack was discovered yesterday.

It's scary that just a couple of weeks ago, the company that employs me was considering them as a potential candidate for moving all our ecommerce infrastructure.
I am genuinely curious how anything technically superior ever gets a chance in this concocted world of yours. Clearly, you prize "less friction among humans" above all else. So given a choice between a clearly flawed technical solution ( say building an operating system in PHP) and alienating other humans ( specifically, an office full of PHP experts ), we should build the OS in PHP because that leads to less friction among humans...yeah ? Let me know how that goes...

Back on point, In grad school, we read the Tenenbaum-Torvalds debates in OS class to get an idea of the current state of research. Tenenbaum's point, among other things, was that microkernels were an unsolved problem. Granted they pushed the problem space into communication, and you had to contend with latencies....but that was the whole prize, to solve this brand new problem space. Whereas big bad monolithic OSes were a solved problem. We know they could be done. As far as a CS researcher was concerned, there was no meat in that space...it was mostly implementation detail and optimizing. Whereas microkernels, despite being a cleaner, more elegant approach to OS design, clearly had tons of issues to be solved, and whoever took a stab at them would push the state of the art forward. That is the point => to find a superior technical solution, not minimizing friction among humans.
Recruitment spam has hit at an all time high.

The LinkedIn "honeypot" setup by Elaine Wherry is now getting an email every 31 hours, despite the fact that the profile is disclosed as being face in her blog.

It's a shame though, because of all the noise, the good opportunities get tossed out with the bad ones. It's easier to stay put then go in for a half-day interview only to find out they want you to take a 30% pay cut.
Ask HN: Is there a startup community in Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ area?
What's the startup community like in the Phoenix / Scottsdale area? How can I get involved? I just launched a startup that's based out of Scottsdale.
wpengine.com It's a lifesaver for me.
Do you think a multi-platform launch would have been possible with about the same effort? That’s the important question here. Also take into account developer experience and what skills Marco Arment has.

We are talking about a small project with limited resources and a developer with a certain skill set. I don’t think you can ignore that.

You can certainly ask for support on more devices and be disappointed that the magazine in the offered format isn’t a good fit for your devices – but I do not understand the apparent moral condemnation of that decision. It seems harmless and morally neutral to me – maybe ill-advised (in that it might doom the magazine), but not morally problematic.
I'd argue that outside the snarky echo chamber of the Valley, and MBA is still considered a valuable signal. So your advice only holds true if you are dead sure you will always be an entrepreneur and never need a fallback position.
> no computer can do that of course

Just check the frontpage again in a few years.
Not Dropbox. Dropbox uses Apple's in-app purchasing system, and offering account upgrades for the same price they charge on their website.
Because Siri is Apple's answer to search on an iPhone, or at least thats's how I interpreted it.
and I used to be on hostgator.com. I would get away from it to be honest if you have a wordpress site.
As always, depends what you're doing, but this is not a crazy statement.

There are certainly fewer bombshells in iOS6 than iOS 5, but it's no stretch to say that adopting iOS 5 early on was worth 100s of hours -- it had huge improvements for dev.

Also keep in mind that the fewer OS versions you target the less testing you have to do.
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Good catch, I just deactivated that key. I thought we scrubbed out all of the keys but this one slipped through. Thanks for pointing it out!
Anyone care for a synopsis? I read the first 2 posts, but couldn't do the other walls-of-texts. Perhaps later.
"Only offer sign-in in the app". But that's what they did, and it was still rejected. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642321
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/98854/Screen%20Shot%202012-10-11%20...

It's a skyscraper built with the 3D DOM view in Firefox.
Aside from UICollectionView and AutoLayout that were mentioned, there is much easier way to localize the app (one storyboard and many "strings" files, more ways to easily customize UI elements, and a few ARC things (no more manually managing dispatch queues, zeroing weak references, etc.)
Good timing, just had a SO question that fits a weekend project:

Implement social share count API in Scala / Java: http://stackoverflow.com/q/12847138/239168

I would do it myself but my wife and 2 small kids will object.
This is fun and all...

but you could just, you know, use 3D transforms, like this:

http://ajf.me/demos/200blocks/
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Surely you mean "pure CSS3 implementation".
Depends very much what you're using it for. I do a lot of ad-hoc data processing and use on-demand all the time.
It's fairly common. For instance, the NY Times style is to use "iPod Touch", "iPod Nano", and "Mac Mini" despite Apple's desires. The justification is that a proper noun in all lowercase can lead to unclear or ambiguous sentences.
Well first of all, you are totally wrong. Read my comment below (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642321) to know how we are not in the same category as Netflix, Spotify etc.

Second, We are not iOS developers. Our iOS app is just another "portal" for our users to access their files. Hell, we didn't even use Apple's SDK, we used PhoneGap to make the App.

Third, just like you, we were also in the illusion that we were not affected by this policy, and by not linking to an external website we were within the guidelines. Turns out, thats not true. (Read my comment linked above)
Great timing, as Zynga gets destroyed because (partly) of having to rely on Facebook for social, Heyzap offers a slight alternative. Couldn't have timed it better!
LearnStreet coming out with a bold statement, but from a quick review of the site, they are offering something different. This is going to be a big market for the service that cracks the code...pun intended.
Battle between generations due to baby boomer debt legacy
Patents for a cause?
Maybe there would be a market for a site that lets people propose and vote on features that should get into electronic devices. Engineers and developers could then collaborate to document and implement those technologies. These creations would be then patented and licensed on a FRAND basis and royalties would be given to charitable causes.
It's about reach versus monetization. The web lets you build a great audience very fast. The iPad comparatively has a much smaller audience, albeit a potent one.

The introductory article talks about what it's going to talk about and that it's for people "who love the Internet... and even coffee" which doesn't excited me much but either way, given the attention on this HN post, I would like to get a taste of the goods. Any sample articles would be nice otherwise it's a complete toss in the dark for me.
check out hashlife and some of the larger landscapes.
Why does it suggest Emscripten for C++? It is written in Python/JavaScript... What is needed, IMHO, is more modularization of the JavaScript. I don't see how a C++ expert is needed. Implementing C++ wrappers for browser API's or what?
I didn't because I thought you had some inside knowledge on the situation and that you might share it. They were questions of the non-rhetorical type.

>They could cut R&D by 1/3, SG&A by 2/3, and even cut down on things like customer support, etc //

Sounds great. When you say SGA, isn't that mainly wages. So, lay off most of their staff, do away with a large part of development and still generate the same earnings. Won't that just cause them to fail slowly?

I can see how Yahoo can coast on inertia to some extent but aren't Zynga more reliant on novelty? Yes new people come along, but they're entering - in social gaming terms - a pool of people who've already tired of a particular game/games.

What do you make of reports like this http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/as-zynga-stock-price... suggesting that several of the top developers are gone/going. Surely that would make it harder to cut R&D and make great new games.

Will be interesting to see how things progress for sure.
Tried it for a few minutes. What is missing and should only take a few minutes to add are generic dips, more generic headers and generic soics. Without I'm stranded before I even get to start as the component library are limited and there is no way to add on your own.
i would have emailed you directly, just didnt have an email and github doesnt have the inbox feature anymore - bummer
The problem is, the 33% smartphone market is 100% controlled by Apple. Nobody can enter that market, unless they have Apple's blessing.
Occam's Razor says that we should prefer simpler explanations to more complex ones with the same explanatory power. That is, we should prefer explanations which don't raise more questions than they answer.

This has nothing to do with the engineering 'KISS' principle which desires simpler architectures because they are easier to understand and thereby to debug and maintain. The point is to avoid astronaut architecture, which is what you get when you chase theoretical ideas rather practical solutions. Linus's whole point is that microkernels are a prime example of astronaut architecture.
Yeah lets fragment the web like it's 1999.

Apple did after all invent the HTML. Lets make it Apple-specific.
no computer can do that of course.

we are getting there - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
This mostly seems to be a magazine for Apple afficionados. And thats a terrible thing, because there is nothing geeky about that company or even company worship.
Why don't you just do this then?
Tablets and Disabilities
Looks awesome. Know of anyone currently using their platform? Any feedback?
Rent the Chromebook & Chromebox
That's awesome -- thanks for posting
Yes, we are working on this. But being a startup, we will be really hurt by this. No iOS customers are going to use our service. However, we would be happy to lead the change. If this becomes a trend, and more and more companies follow our footsteps, we would be living in a better world a few years down the road :)
Liking the Code Garage stuff at least. Not your typical "hello world" fodder, which I never found too practical.
Fascinating, totally mesmerizing video. That's reminiscent of something that you could be observing under a microscope.
This works nicely for background images. For <img src="..."/> tags, I use srcset, and then shiv browsers with javascript:

https://github.com/jcampbell1/jquery-srcset-retina-polyfill
Then they do so incorrectly, as Apple's list of registered trademarks clearly specifies the lowercase second word for these devices. [0]

So when the NY Times writes iPod Touch® [1] as they do on their mobile apps page they're not using the registered trademark as intended. It would be as incorrect as writing 'Blackberry' or 'MicroSoft'.

Apple is pretty touchy about this, with Section 4 of their 'Rules for Proper Use of Apple Trademarks' saying:

4. Always spell and capitalize Apple’s trademarks exactly as they are shown in the Apple Trademark List. Do not shorten or abbreviate Apple product names. Do not make up names that contain Apple trademarks. [2]

Obviously the enforcement of all that legalese is questionable and Apple has yet to burn down the doors of the NY Times, but I think it's fair to say that for the rest of us it would be correct to accept that not all company and product names follow grammatical rules and that when writing about them we should spell and capitalise them as the company intended rather than as we'd prefer.

[0] http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/appletmlist.html

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/services/mobile/apps/

[2] http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/guidelinesfor3rdparties...